After several eparchies failed to abide by the mandate, the Pope issued an ultimatum in a Dec. 7 video message calling on the Church to adopt the ad orientem liturgy approved by the synod by Dec. 25.

MUMBAI – Two days after priests and laity in the Syro-Malabar Church defied the deadline imposed by a papal delegate to adopt a new mode of celebrating Mass or face canonical punishment, including ...

A protest in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Ernakulam, India. (Credit: Screen capture.) Listen MUMBAI – In a clear sign that a vicious fight over liturgy in Catholicism’s second largest ...

Synodal and papal exhortations for the Church to unify under one Mass led to several protests from clergy and laypeople. More than 4,000 faithful attended the celebration of the Christmas Mass at the ...

Pope Francis is seen in this screen grab giving a message from the Vatican to Syro-Malabar Catholics in India's Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, asking them to end their dispute over the way the ...

The new archbishop of the divided Syro-Malabar Church (SMC) in India has been well received by the faithful, but there is no sign that the differences over the liturgy that have split his Church are ...

Laypeople in an archdiocese of India's Syro-Malabar Catholic Church have begun a round-the-clock vigil to stop the Vatican-appointed administrator from gaining entry into the archbishop's house. Lay ...

KOCHI: The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church’s special tribunal for the Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy, constituted to hear allegations of financial malpractices and defiance by Fr Varghese Manavalan, has ...

The decades-old liturgical dispute in India’s eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church reached the Vatican when a group of Catholics raised placards during the general audience of Pope Francis. The close to ...